In a game of whack-a-mole, the moles always win.

Mere words have sagas hidden in them.

Our act of understanding the Universe a bit more changes the Universe enough that we will never get to fully understand it.

Me in 2045: Kids, there used to be a language powering the web called JavaScript in which: null <= 0 // true null < 0 // false null == 0 // false ...and the web somehow still worked!

Block 16964664: A user managed to drain five MEV bots by exploiting a bug in mev-boost-relay. Here's the block: etherscan.io/block/16964664 Here's the user: etherscan.io/address/0x3c98… Here's the patch: github.com/flashbots/mev-… Here's the longer explanation:

It's not generative AI; it's regurgitating AI 😎

We'll be "raising" our AIs in the future, like we raise our kids. They will be the sum total of nature (their architecture and initial training) and nurture (how they learn and evolve with you).

Growing up, I always dreamt of being rich enough one day to be able to brazenly rip protective plastic films off of my possessions!

ChatGPT 3.5 getting confused about what "different" means in the context of code

Interesting find of the day: 🤯 Interact with databases using vim: github.com/tpope/vim-dadb…

My new #asmr fix - drinking sparkling water while wearing noise cancelling earbuds.

Can we agree to not call it Jacobson's organ once and for all?

Hyrum's law is actually a special case of how life/species establishes itself. Existence of any favorable substrate makes it highly likely to be adopted. That's just the best general strategy for the user/life/species to be successful.

Break the balance in order to achieve greater awareness of its importance.

At a fundamental level, human beings are incapable of being unbiased. For rigorous decision making, you won't win by just trying to cultivate a balanced pov in yourself. A better framework is to add competent humans with different povs. That's the power of diverse teams!

Every failure represents a gap in our understanding of the world.

I wonder if those digressions during projects to solve side problems are an attempt to replace a fear-inducing lesser known path with a more known and comforting one!